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James Mackintosh

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ARTICLES BY JAMES MACKINTOSH

Tariffs are paralyzing business and scaring consumers. Photo: timothy a. clary/AFP/Getty Images

Markets finally woke up to tariff reality. Is this a buying opportunity?

4 min read . 09 Mar 2025

Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chip giant Nvidia. Photo: patrick t. fallon/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Why Trump losers are the biggest stock market winners

3 min read . 28 Feb 2025

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was designed for an era of human stock selection. (Getty Images via AFP)

America’s most famous stock-market measure is more broken than usual

3 min read . 12 Feb 2025

Lynn Forester de Rothschild had pushed for companies to adopt ESG. (Bloomberg)

A Rothschild who crusaded for kinder capitalism adjusts to the Trump era

5 min read . 09 Feb 2025

More competition will make it hard for Big Tech to make the oligopoly-like profit margins that investors hope for. (AFP)

DeepSeek undercuts belief that chip-hungry US players will win AI race

4 min read . 28 Jan 2025

US President Donald Trump. (File Photo: Reuters)

Investors bet Trump will make Europe investable again

4 min read . 24 Jan 2025

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve officials lowered their benchmark interest rate for a third consecutive time in December, but reined in the number of cuts they expect in 2025. (Photo: Bloomberg)

What if the Fed u-turns and raises rates this year?

3 min read . 15 Jan 2025

The Trump Treasury could shift away from the current focus on shorter-term borrowing. (AP)

The stock market embraced higher yields. Now it fears them.

3 min read . 09 Jan 2025

U.S. stocks are expensive, with six of the Magnificent Seven, including Apple, even more so. Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News

Is this wildly overvalued stock market doomed? Yes, but maybe not yet

5 min read . 06 Dec 2024

Inflation risks rise with new policies, but traditional hedges like oil and commodities are losing their effectiveness. (Image: Pixabay)

If inflation is back, protecting against it won’t be simple

4 min read . 25 Nov 2024

Since last week’s election, bitcoin has added billions to its total value. Photo: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg News

Is Trump really so great for bitcoin?

1 min read . 15 Nov 2024

After taking office in January 2017, Donald Trump prioritized things that markets didn’t like. (Getty Images via AFP)

For what comes next in markets, look back to 2016

4 min read . 09 Nov 2024

Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump. (REUTERS)

The ‘Trump trade’ isn’t what you think

5 min read . 04 Nov 2024

If higher rates were affecting demand, it ought at least to be growing more slowly. (Image: Pixabay)

Simple economic explanations keep breaking down. Here’s why.

4 min read . 22 Oct 2024

The Fed says it sets policy based on incoming data, especially on inflation and jobs. (REUTERS)

The Fed has a dependency problem that needs fixing

4 min read . 14 Oct 2024

The crosscurrents from tech and war make it foolish to rely on sectors to follow their traditional cyclical and defensive patterns in coming months. (Image: Pixabay)

A tried-and-true investing pattern has lost its shape

4 min read . 06 Oct 2024

Pedestrians in Hong Kong in August; many economists say China’s economic growth needs to rely less on state-directed investment and more on household consumption. (Getty Images)

Will China’s surprise stimulus work?

4 min read . 29 Sep 2024

The basic question is whether half-percentage-point cuts are the new normal. (REUTERS)

The Fed is flying blind. Investors don’t seem to care.

3 min read . 22 Sep 2024

History tells us that in the past when the Fed raised rates a lot, it almost always caused a recession. (Image: Pixabay)

A recession signal is flashing red. Or is it?

4 min read . 11 Sep 2024

(Illustration: WSJ)

Why markets have the jitters

3 min read . 06 Sep 2024